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Originally Posted by sirmaru
I hate to say this but most PW 2013 readers LIKE the fonts, the white background and the CONTRAST. I really could care less if my unit has or does not have pin holes.
At my age a Kindle Paperwhite is LITERALLY A MIRACLE. Just look at printed pages if you want to see defects. Its like day and night.
Try the competitive eInk readers and you will see they are GARBAGE by comparison to the PW 2013. Amazon will take the market and in 5 years there will be no competition, not even Apple will stand against them.
If someone gets a unit where PIN holes bother him, just exchange it for a new unit. Amazon has great return policies which others cannot match.
The entire PIN hole controversy is a niche area and I really doubt if the vast majority of PW owners can see them. Only those, who wear certain types of eye glasses, can even see them.
There are some problems with the PW's such as freezes, lack of page control, battery failure and others but even they are a very small minority of units shipped.
I've read HUNDREDS of reviews at the Amazon site and a mention of a PIN hole is a distinct RARITY. Only here we get all the PIN hole complaints as we got all the color complaints last year.
The reason the SAME people get the same color and / or pin hole problems on many unit exchanges and others never get them I believe has something to do with their glasses which make their vision very sharp and ultra sensitive to those kinds of defects.
My brother is going deaf. He got a very expensive ear insert where he could hear folks talking through walls and hundreds of feet away on streets and in restaurants. Only he could hear them. Thus, he returned that device for a slight loss of hearing versus the ultra sensitive detection. Some glasses may have the same problems.
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I've not got involved in this argument so far but your comment that ultra sensitive glasses could cause the wearer to see pin holes is laughable.
I wear glasses as I am shortsighted, I've been wearing them for 40+ years, yet my real close vision is still better without glasses.
My PW2 will be arriving today and even though I wear glasses I will be looking for pin holes with my naked eyes, my eyes practically nose pressed to the screen. I hope I don't see one, but if I do it will be because its there, not because I wear ultra sensitive glasses!!!
Next you'll be saying X-Ray glasses exist......